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Victims were children, young people and vulnerable adults who suffered beatings, sexual assault and other cruelty while in state or religious care between 1950 and 2019. (Video first published in December 2020)
Gloriavale Leavers Support Trust manager Liz Gregory said on Thursday she had received a commitment from the Royal Commission into abuse and faith-based care that it was sending lawyers to Canterbury in April to talk to those who had left Gloriavale. Confirmation of the visit to Canterbury – where many of those who left the West Coast Christian community are now based – comes as the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care speeds up its report on redress by two years.
Connie s story: Gloriavale leaver who reported father to police opens home to him
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She escaped from Gloriavale and told police of the years of physical abuse she and her younger sister endured at the hands of their father. But when it was his time to get out, she took him in as she navigated the normal things most of us take for granted: technology, fashion, earning her own money and relationships. Now her family is at the centre of a civil case set to shake up the commune, writes Alanah Eriksen.
It may seem pretty normal.
A young mum in ripped jeans on a Saturday morning in a house of her own giving her two sons a glass of chocolate milk each. The little boys then playing in their lounge filled with colourful toys and watching cartoons, their mum speaking the odd word in te reo Māori.
Ex-Gloriavale member takes landmark court action to remove leadership
(Photo / File) Thu, 11 Feb 2021, 1:16PM
A former Gloriavale member who has launched a potentially landmark legal case to try and remove the leadership of the West Coast religious commune has got his first day in court today.
Ex-member John Ready, who was banished from Gloriavale more than three years ago and who still has family members inside the community, has launched a civil claim at the High Court.
Ready wants the courts to intervene and remove the board of trustees of the Christian Church Community Trust - the registered charity behind the remote community based at Haupiri, inland from Greymouth – and have them replaced with a public trust until a fit board can be found .
Former Gloriavale member John Ready launches civil court action against leadership trust
10 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM
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John Ready, who was banished from Gloriavale more than three years ago and who still has family members inside the community, has launched a civil claim at the High Court.
John Ready, who was banished from Gloriavale more than three years ago and who still has family members inside the community, has launched a civil claim at the High Court.
A former Gloriavale member who has launched a potentially landmark legal case to try and remove the leadership of the West Coast religious commune has got his first day in court today.